Johnny Hughes ha scritto: > Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: >> Johnny Hughes ha scritto: >>> Kenneth Porter wrote: >>>> Googling for this feature, I saw reports from the yum developer that it >>>> wasn't yet implemented. This was in mailing list posts from a year or >>>> more ago. Did it ever make it into the yum code? >>>> >>>> I want to start downloading the updates for a server going from 5.0 to >>>> 5.1 and then do the actual installation once I'm on site. I don't want >>>> to have to wait around while there for the download to proceed. I'd >>>> rather have all the packages ready in the yum cache when I get there. >>> There is a yum plugin to do this ... it is called yum-downloadonly, so >>> >>> yum install yum-downloadonly >>> >>> Afterwards do this to see how to use the pluging: >>> >>> yum --help >>> >>> Basically ... >>> >>> yum --downloadonly upgrade >>> >>> This will put all the updates into the /var/cache/yum/ >>> >>> (This will be all the updates for the packagelist on the current machine >>> ... so if you want to get them all, make sure to duplicate the machine >>> packagelist you want to get the downloads for) >>> >>> you can then copy these files to the new machine(s) /var/cache/yum/ >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Johnny Hughes >>> >> What about centos 4? Does exists something similar? > > Yes, but it is part of the yum-utils package for CentOS-4: > > rpm -q yum-utils > > If you do not have yum-utils installed: > > yum install yum-utils > > Then: > > man yumdownloader > Thanks, Johnny, but I'm too lazy (I tend to be really slow on scripting) to make a script that get the list of updated packages and puts them in the right place under /var/cache/yum/ ... I was hoping on a "canned" solution :D I only have a couple of server running CentOS4, so I prefer to get them updated on CentOS5 asap :) Thanks again Lorenzo Quatrini